In an effort to reduce wasteful spending and eliminate non-vital federal services, the U.S. government announced plans this week to cut its long-standing senator program, a move it says will help save more than $300 billion each year.

If only it were true. Career Politicians are the bane of free peoples.

The framers of our Constitution envisioned a representative government.

What we have is currently more of an oligarchy, run by career politicians and unelected bureaucrats.

The primary requirement to run government in the last hundred years or is the desire to do so, followed closely by the ability to get other people to vote for you. There is absolutely no requirement by the people that their government actually govern well, as seen by the fact that the US Government can not manage to effectively govern themselves, manage government finances, or promote the general welfare.

When we have a group of politicians and bureaucrats who actually understand what the average person lives like, then perhaps a representative democracy will work. Until then, toss the bastards out, or bring it down.